FOR COLORED BOYS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW WAS NOT ENUFF BY DIRIYE OSMAN There’s a revelatory Lauryn Hill song called “Little Boys” , in which she sings, “What happens to young men/ Disappointed once again/ When they find out they’re…

African countries passing harsh laws against LGBTs and our allies have been much in the gay press over the past year. But all too often African LGBTs have appeared as mute objects of repression, rather than people organizing to win their…

From Al Jazeera America, Ugandan academic, professor of law at Makerere University in Uganda, Sylvia Tamale on legalized homophobia in Africa. Professor Tamale is the editor of African Sexualities published by Fahamu Press. During a prime time interview with…

From Pambazuka News, Henry Makori calls for an end to the persecution of LGBTI people across Africa which goes beyond laws to a fierce intolerance by society at large. President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised…

From Pambazuka News, “Museveni and reconstruction of homophobic colonial legacy in Africa: Which way progressives?” Horace Campbell on the passing of ‘legizlations of hate” in Uganda and Nigeria exposes the historical roots of right wing American Christian fundamentalists which goes…

From Paper Bird, an excellent report by Scott Long on who are the winners and losers in the AID game – the dice are loaded! Victory! .. isn’t it? On February 27, the World Bank announced it was “indefinitely” delaying…

From the Nation, Kenya a review of Nigerian novelist, Jude Dibia’s novel “Walking With Shadows” If I were to write a novel to respond to the anti-gay politics seeping through the Ugandan border into Kenya, it would probably be like…

From the Guardian Africa Network, Nigerian / British writer, Bernadine Evaristo dismisses the mantra that homosexuality in Africa is a ‘western import’ and provides examples of same sex relationships and multiple gender relations. “Throughout history people everywhere have explored and…

African groups call for the African Union to urgently respond to gender and sexuality rights violations in Africa, and particularly to anti-gay laws recently passed in Uganda and Nigeria As African civil society organisations whose members live and work to…

MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL DATE: MONDAY, 3 MARCH 2014 STATEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND PERTAINING TO ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LEGISLATION IN AFRICA The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation in…